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GitLab 19.2 released
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When a version bump breaks your build, GitLab fixes it
AI is writing more code and pulling in more dependencies, increasing application risk. Most of that exposure isn't from code your team actively chose. A 2025 study of the Maven ecosystem found vulnerabilities reaching roughly 63% of latest releases through transitive dependencies, versus 31% through...
Build a Multi-Camera 3D Tracking Application with NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 Skills
Developers building video analytics applications across large spaces must track the same object as it moves between camera views. Single-camera 2D tracking...
Develop Lightweight USD Runtimes Faster with AI Agents
OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation...
Building Faster Cryptography with Carryless Multiplication in NVIDIA CUDA 13.3
For over fifteen years, x86 CPUs have shipped with a dedicated hardware instruction for carryless multiplication. It’s a small but stubborn primitive that...
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
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Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization
Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the universe of Ads entities – users, advertisers, products, services – learning unified embeddings that connect users’ inferred interests with the breadth of what advertisers ...
AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
How bitdrift scaled to 121 million concurrent gRPC connections on Amazon CloudFront for live telemetry sporting events
When 121 million mobile devices establish persistent gRPC connections to your origin infrastructure within seconds of a live broadcast, the routing policy behind your DNS records matters far more than it does at normal traffic levels. The wrong policy can concentrate all your connections onto a sing...
The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.
GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
Making 768 servers look like 1
How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
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Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
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Datadog named Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Datadog has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the sixth consecutive year. Learn more.
Monitor Apigee X API traffic and security with Datadog
Learn how to monitor Apigee X with Datadog so you can track API traffic, latency, anomalies, and security posture and catch issues before clients do.
How Mapfre Insurance modernized fraud claims with Amazon EMR Serverless
Insurance fraud remains a significant challenge for the insurance industry because fraudulent claims can increase loss costs, reduce trust, and consume investigation capacity that could otherwise be focused on serving customers. Traditional fraud detection approaches typically rely on rules-based co...
Lessons From the Leaderboard: What 5,000+ Kagglers Taught Us About Improving AI Reasoning
The NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge invited the Kaggle community to explore a focused question: What techniques can improve reasoning accuracy when...
Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how many active WebSocket connections a pod is holding. When ...
Shipyard: How We Built Slack’s Next-Generation EC2 Platform
Over the past few years, we’ve been on a journey to modernise how we run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances at Slack. In our first post, Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure, we shared how we moved from a single Chef stack to a resilient, multi-stack setup with versioned cookbook deployments ...
How to Run an Autoresearch Workflow with RL Agent Skills and NVIDIA NeMo
Coding AI agents are becoming practical operators for long-running machine learning (ML) workflows. They can inspect repositories, set up runtimes, resolve...
Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 in One Day Using Agent Skills
What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning...
Build Durable Chat Memory for RAG Using ScyllaDB and LangChain
How to replace LangChain's in-memory chat history with ScyllaDB — so your RAG chatbot retains context across restarts and scales across replicas
DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs
LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describes how the example of Tickloom - a domain model ...
How to manage AI investments in the agentic era
Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.